Brain effects from the radiation coming from your phone:

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Brain effects from the misinformation coming from your phone:

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I'm pretty sure it was you that had the thought experiment on WBD podcast about the libertarian island where the owner is merely protecting his or her property rights, which always degenerates into a state. It stuck with me.

Agreed. Google Play isn't as bad as the Apple App Store, but it is still a defacto monopoly. At least one can install outside apps - which is what you need to do to run Nostros. Unfortunately, most phone users understandably are not comfortable doing this sort of thing, and for good reason.

Beautiful voice. The piano music and arrangement is also lovely.

On any other platforms?

Ohh ya. The courts, who issue 200yr prison sentences on a 50yr old man. Who issue $1B fines to a bankrupt man. And who take up to 10yrs to do it. Yup, that's restitution and resolution alright. 🤣🤣

Keep licking that boot bud.

The revolution against Ceaușescu was a positive though. Many Romanians will attest.

Securities aren't fake because they government says they are. They're also not real because the government says they are.

Stupid people will do stupid things (like holding funds on exchanges, or watching football). No matter how much we try to stop them. Ultimately they must live with the consequences of their stupidity.

I don’t think anyone suggested this?

The presence of evil in this world does not mean good men should do nothing. I am not naive. I know the good guys don’t always win. But they never do if they don’t fight.

How many of these repressive regimes have historically been overthrown through diplomacy?

Like the Bolsheviks, the Ayatollah, Mao, Chavez, Kim Il-Song, Pol Pot, etc?

You beat me to it. That’s why it was considered a sacrifice to fight. It was something you did to benefit your descendants.

What’s the latest on the Arab Spring? The Iranian Revolution? China? Russia? Venezeula? North Korea?

Were they shitty for the descendants of the victors?

True true. That said, I was listening to a podcast the other day about the Russian Revolution and apparently Lenin, who was exiled in Switzerland, never anticipated the Bolsheviks would take control of Russia in his lifetime and he even made speeches saying so.

Yet, things unwound fast. Hence his famous quote, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

I'm with you though, I wouldn't hold my breath. :)

When large paradigm shifts have occured historically, it is a rule rather than an exception that the incumbents fail to adapt and instead the new leaders emerge from the periphery. It happened so many times from the roman empire to the brittish empire.

With regards to a potential hyperbitcoinization - it should be viewed as a similar historical paradigm shift - and as such - it would be wise to assume that the liberal democracies of the west will not promote and facilitate such a paradigm shift. In fact, it is indeed clear that they are doing the exact opposite - they are resisting the change.

So from a historical perspective, the west would be the wrong place to look for, if you are looking for signs of hyperbitcoinization. Instead, the global south is likely the place.

A difficult ask; to separate passion from the hopes and dreams for one’s children.